Tonya GilmoreFrom Scott Joplin and Chuck Berry to Tina Turner, Nelly and Wilco, St. Louis has long boasted a rich and widely influential musical scene. This spring the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will launch a new concert series designed to highlight the talents and diversity of contemporary St. Louis musicians. The free Friday evening concerts — titled Kemper Presents — will feature close to a dozen local artists working in a variety of genres, from ambient jazz and electronica to experimental rock and American roots music.
Release embargoed until 9 p.m. Feb. 7, 2008. Two student-owned business startups won the top honors at the Olin Cup Competition award ceremony Thursday, Feb. 7. The first place award of $50,000 went to Is That One Good? an internet web site where consumers can compare notes on goods and services. The second place, $25,000 prize went to MedExceed, a medical device company. The awards were announced at a ceremony on Feb. 7 at Washington University in St. Louis. Arnold W. Donald, former chairman of Merisant and current president and chief executive officer of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International was the keynote speaker.
David Kilper/WUSTL Photo Services*She Stoops to Conquer*Class, courtship and dysfunctional families all collide in She Stoops to Conquer, the classic 18th century comedy-of-errors by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. This month, the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present a new production of this prototypical “situation comedy” in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.
When the winter sky washes the campus in ochres and grays, the student Arts Commission hosts its annual exhibition featuring works by students, faculty and staff of Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM). The event promotes a passion for creativity in a community devoted to science and medicine. More entries, more variety, and a high level of craft combined to make this year’s show remarkable.
WUSTL has moved up three spots on this year’s Peace Corps’ top 25 list of medium-sized schools producing Peace Corps volunteers. With 22 alumni currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers, the University is now ranked 20th overall.
Jarvis A. Thurston, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English and former chair of Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, died Monday, Feb. 4, of heart disease at his home in University City. He was 93.
A group of residents and attending physicians have released a new Washington Manual designed for health-care providers who care for critically ill patients.
The George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host a lecture by Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures and author of the groundbreaking book “Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life” at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, in Brown Hall Lounge. The lecture, titled “Realizing the Experience Dividend […]